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Series
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English
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This prequel to the Old Kingdom series tells the story of how Sabriel's parents, Terciel and Elinor, met.
In the Old Kingdom, a land of ancient and often terrible magics, orphan Terciel learns the art of necromancy from his great-aunt Tizanael. He is the Abhorsen-in-Waiting, and Tizanael is the Abhorsen, the latest in a long line of people whose task it is to make sure the Dead do not return to Life. Across the Wall in Ancelstierre, Elinor's only...
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Series
Two lies and a spy volume 1
Language
English
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Sixteen-year-old Kari juggles saving her spy parents while impressing the guy she has been in love with forever.
Author
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
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Description
In the aftermath of the accident that killed his foster father, high school student Jacob Fielding discovers that he has acquired the power of indestructibility, and the more he learns about it the more he realizes that it is a heavy burden, if not a curse.
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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Description
Ever since her mother left, Maia has struggled with depression, which has only gotten worse since her father remarried; so Maia decides to run away to Canada to find her mother, together with Billy, a boy who now lives in a group home and has his own family tragedy--but when they finally arrive in Tadoussac, Quebec, Maia discovers that even her mother has been keeping secrets.
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Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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"Jeremy is not excited about the prospect of spending the summer with his dad and his uncle in a seaside cabin in Oregon. It's the first summer after his parents' divorce, and he hasn't exactly been seeking alone time with his dad. He doesn't have a choice, though, so he goes . . . and on his first day takes a walk on the beach and finds himself intrigued by a boy his age running by. Eventually, he and Runner Boy (Evan) meet--and what starts out as...
7) The savage
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2008.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
79 pages : color illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
A boy tells about a story he wrote when dealing with his father's death about a savage kid living in a ruined chapel in the woods--and the tale about the savage kid coming to life in the real world.
Author
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First Simon Pulse hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
314 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"In Makersville, Indiana, people know all about fifteen-year-old Ronney--he's from that mixed-race family with the dad who tried to kill himself, the pill-popping mom, and the genius kid sister. Can Ronney figure out a way to hold it together as all his worlds fall apart?"--
10) Daniel X
Author
Series
Publisher
Yen Press
Pub. Date
2010-
Physical Desc
volumes : chiefly black and white illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Kingswell
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
1st edition.
Physical Desc
358 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Imagine being trapped inside a Disney movie and having to learn about life mostly from animated characters dancing across a screen of color. A fantasy? A nightmare? This is the real-life story of Owen Suskind, the son of the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Ron Suskind and his wife, Cornelia. An autistic boy who couldn't speak for years, Owen memorized dozens of Disney movies, turned them into a language to express love and loss, kinship, brotherhood....
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